So what is wrong with a Billion Dollars ??? If you take 1,000,000,000 / 12 months = $ 83333333 per month / $20 per account = 4166667 paying members per month. Lets assume everyone is working a 50/50 partnership program, so in order for a webmaster to make let's say 10K a month. They would have to have 1167 people paying in for them at $8.50/commission. So at a billion dollars there would be 3570 webmasters making 10K a month

Then out of the 10K they pay for hosting, content, webmaster services, all that good stuff

So I don't see that as being too far out of line. Maybe they are using fuzzy math
Tim